The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-02-23
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Tie New York strike is over now and
everything is working rs usual.
The New York Senate has passed tie bill
allowing women to vote IN municipal clec-
tons.
The news of Prince Bismarck 5 success
is causing unwontcd trmncss on the Berlin
bct;rse.
The Governor of Kansas has approved
the bill comforting municipal suffrage upon
w0ECn.
The two houses of the New jersey Legis
latu-e met in joint session and ballotcd for
United States Senator, but without success.
The President says the new Railroad
Commissioners must be men of activity,
who will work hard for their salary.
The steamship Great Eastern was sold At
auction Ut Liverpool yesterday Tor SO
0Q0
The disabled steamship Wisconsin, Of
the Guion Line. arrived at New York !:
40 P. NJ. yesterday.
The Lynchburg Jrginian, one Of the
Oldest papers in the State, established III
1903, has suspended.
The President has vetoed the bill appro-
priatiag $4,000 for distribution OF seeds
10 the drouth-stricken counties Of Texas
Lula Hearst. the magnetic has mar
r;cd Paul Atkinson, the man who Travelled
round with her and introduced her 10 the
audience.
Secretary Manning yesterday called at
the White House, renewed his letter OF
resignation and that evening left Washing
ton for Albany.
The President has nominated Captain
AdoipbuS w Grcely, Of Arctic fame. to be
Chief Signal Officer, with herank OF Brig
adler General.
Al is quiet among the Boston strikers.
/ good many cars arc running. The pro-
prietors say they will resort to anything
before taking the strikers back.
Miss Edith Elwerth Talmage. daughter
OF the Rev T. Dewitt Talmage, was we'd
Gcd in the Brooklyn Tabernacle last night
70 Alien Edloe Donnan, of Richmond, Va
Ex-Alderman Dnffy, who turned in
former on his colleagues IN the combine
of the Doodle Board Of Aldermen, has been
surrendered by one Of his bondsrnen.
Four persons confined for theft escaped
from the Jail in Harrisburg last night. They
fired the bed in their cell before leaving but
it WAS discovered before much damage was
done
\ Geaf mute, answering the description
OF Walter Bingham, the sweetheart muir
dcrer, has withip the last few days been
seen in the vicinity of Leicester, Buncombe
county, N. c.
The wife of County Treasurer Bell, OF
Colleton. was accidentally burned to death
on Monday. HeG clothing took fire while
she was sitting before the fireplace.
l.. Russell, on trial in the Criminal Court
at Memphis, Tenn, for the murder Of j:
Tom Dutton, committed in Tie rotunda Of
the Peabody Hotel on December 6, has
been acquitted.
A telegram from Sewanee, Tenn, on
Saturday, announces the death there OF the
Rt. Rev. William Mercer Green, for the
past 40 years Bishop of the Episcopa! Do
cesc of Mississippi.
The vote in full for the Mayor OF Phi!a-
delphia, Pa, is as follows: Filter. Repub.
lican, 90,497; kcim, Democrat, 62,204;
Phillips, Labor, 1864.
Senator Cuke introduced an amendment
70 the River and Harbor bill. making an
appropriation of $500, 600 for dredging the
channel across Galveston bar.
The United States mint at Philadelphia
has secured a counterfeit two dollar and a
hall gold piece of 1852, for which it has
been in quest for years for the purpose OF
completing its cabinet
The insurance men complain that the
! heavy loss by the recent fire in Augusta
was due to the inefiiciency Of the fire de-
partmeat The chief says the department
is TOO small
The witnesses in the United States Court,
now in session at Greenviile, have peti-
toned Judge Simonton to see them PAID or
le; them 90 home. The appropriation IS
exhausted.
y large tobacco factory at Petersburg,
Va, owned by Davis Dunlap, was de-
ssroyed by fire, together with stock, fx-
tares, machinery, &c. Loss $3.50, 900, cov-
cred by insurance.
J. C. Breser, who was fined $50 in the
Atlanta Police Court for violating the pro
Lbitioa laws several weeks ago, appealed
10 the City Court, and, being convicted,
was fined $1,000.
Sixty British members OF the House of
Commons, at conference, adopted a reso-
LUTON to call the attention Of Parliament
next week to the alleged packing Of jurieS
in cases against Nationalist in Ireland.
The Arkansas river at Little Rock and
above, and its tributaries, are all at food
tide and out of their banks in many places.
Fears are entertained of another heavy
food.
at Snearr,s station, Ga, Toney Williams
shot and killed his stepson. Williams and
lis wife were quarreling, and her son in
tcrfered, when Williams seized a shotgun
and blew off the top of his Stepson,s head.
The snow storms n Spain during the
past few days have been Of unprecedented
severity. Railway lines in Catalonia have
been blocked with snow for three days.
The cold is intense and causes the greatest
inconvenience throughout toe country.
4 serious snow blockade in the Sierra
Nevada Mountains has totally interrupted
travel on the Central Pacific road for two
Gays, and heavy rains IN Southern Calltor-
nia have caused considerable delay on the
Southern Pacific by washouts.
The whole country from Lyons, Mich.
| to Muir presents panorama Of desolation.
| Many merchants have been unable to visit
their stores since Thursday morning and
several who attempted 1t were swept down